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Man Critical After He Tried to Hit a Moving Train With a Metal Bat
posted by Jim Forsyth -
Aug 31, 2018
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You've heard of somebody being hurt by being hit by a train. Police say a man is in critical condition with injuries he suffered early today when he tried to hit a train, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Police say for some reason the man, in his late twenties, was standing on the railroad tracks along Frio City Road on the southwest side about 12:30 this morning.

When a Union Pacific freight train passed, the man apparently tried to hit the train with some sort of metal bat.

The force of the moving train pushed the bat back at the man.

The man tried to stumble away, and made it as far as the 400 block of Brady, about two blocks away, before collapsing.

He suffered major head injuries and a broken arm, and was rushed to SAMMC in extremely critical condition.

Drugs motivated.

That involved a whole series of Darwin-illuminated choices...

sometimes, you don't get 3 strikes !

Let me guess no medical insurance, what is going to be the cost to fix stupid ?

The capacity for stupidity in the human organism continues to impress me.

Well, at least now we know what happens if you hit a train with a bat. Check that one off the list.

Simonkenton7: I shake my head in disbelief.
I have investigated and actually seen humans do some amazingly stupid things during my 29 year law enforcement career but the instance you post about is right up there in the top three or four all time craziest, stupidest, most bizarre things that I know about humans attempting!
If they save him he needs "mental help" for sure.
This would be funny if the cretin involved had not been so seriously injured (actually I did some grinning until I read the last line where the article relays the "man is in extremely critical condition" - I think that means he is gonna die).
Sheesh.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Haaa, this reminded me of one of my stupid moves during my youth.

One time I hung out the passenger side window of my buddy's car and hit a mail box with a wood bat going about 60 mph. The bat broke and splintered at the handle and split both of my hands open and they were bleeding. There was definitely alcohol involved. It kind of ruined my Saturday night. Those guys thought it was funny, but my hands went numb for a while and then they hurt real bad for the rest of the night. The only thing to do at that point was to crack open another beer to kill the pain. Stupid is that stupid does.

Swing batter batter, swing.......

So it's the train's fault, isn't it? Are we going to ban trains now?

UP will end up paying a claim just to get rid of him.

same thing happened to my old lady's ex husband when he pull a bat on me.

Well, varmintguy, I was a paramedic for 14 years and I agree with you, "extremely critical" means he is probably in the morgue right now.
Bat ricocheted off the train and smashed his skull. Got to admit he did pretty well, to stagger 2 blocks before he collapsed.

I wonder if they have video cams in the front of freight trains. Well I bet they do because I have one in the front of my Big Rig.
That clusterf*ck would show up great on the train video cam, they have really massive headlights.

By the way I am from Montana! I was born in Billings. Unfortunately my parents moved to Atlanta when I was 1 year old. Always wished they had stayed in Montana I think I would have been a good hockey player.

That's why all my "train bats" are made of wood.

That ain't what they meant when they said "training camp" kid.

Likely boozed up and mad .

Lad I grew up around - few years older interrupted our backyard baseball game - Ricky Blankenship - wasn't leaving until he got a smack our baseball . Smacks the baseball then kicks a basketball to my older brother Tim to pitch to him - overhanded throw full on swing at the easy to hit basketball - bat came back hit him across the temple - knocked out like Big Bad John hit him with a Coal hammer .
His Mom came up to check on him - wanted to know which one of us hit him - out for maybe 15 minutes - woke up crying like a baby and stumbled home with a knot the size of a goose egg . He said he was dizzy for 2-3 weeks .

He threw a push mower frame -no engine- up on their roof to see what would happen - it rolled off and broke his top front teeth off like little nubs - looked crazy .
He wound up in prison for breaking into a trailer - then torched it to rid the place of his finger-prints . He would have swatted a train on a dare .

There was a time when my uncle was losing a mailbox every week or two. Kids in cars with bats were the problem. He rebuilt the post for the mailbox with brick and mortar, with a large shiny brand new mail box perched right on top. It was a beautiful job, and it was no more than 2 days before the first attack.
In the morning, there was found half a wooden bat, a lot of automotive glass, and a small scuff in the side of the mailbox. You see, when he mounted the box, he did so by in embedding a large piece of 1/2" steel angle 6" × the length of the mailbox , into the brick column, cut a 1/2" slot in the bottom of the mailbox on the right side, and attached the mailbox with liquid nails, slid over the angle.
No one ever got caught, but it never happened again either.

Simonkenton7: Theres plenty of room for you to move back to Montana!
I bet you have seen your share of human "mistakes and screw-ups" resulting in injury.
It was just glorious here in SW Montana today and this evening.
I attended the local high school football game (that started at 7:00 PM) and again the weather was just glorious - from my seat in the top row of the stadium I saw numerous smaller flocks of Geese fly over and across the way I saw a Whitetail doe and fawn feeding in a nearby pasture.
Hope all is well down south.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy